Old People Sayings

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]Hip Scar wrote:
This is really going to show my southern roots…

“You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.”
“What’s time to a hog?” - My mom referring ot my granfather who would drive to Georgia just to get peaches.
“They could eat corn on the cob through a chain link fence” - refering to someone with jacked up teeth
“She looks like 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag.”
“That dog won’t hunt.”
“You are getting to big for your britches son!” - Dad to smartass son…
“Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a romm full of rockers.”
“As easy as pulling a greasy string out of a cats ass.” no idea on where this came from other than my Papaw
“Well bless their heart!” - What mom and mammaw said when they didn’t have anything nice to say about someone.
“That boy could tear up concrete.” [/quote]

What part of the south HS, cause I grew up hearing all those same sayings.
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I say “that dog won’t hunt” all the time.

I also like, Coming down like a cow pissing of a flat rock. (Talking about rain)
And my favorite, Mosquitoes so big they could fuck a dog flat footed.

If that ain’t country…

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]Hip Scar wrote:
This is really going to show my southern roots…

“You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.”
“What’s time to a hog?” - My mom referring ot my granfather who would drive to Georgia just to get peaches.
“They could eat corn on the cob through a chain link fence” - refering to someone with jacked up teeth
“She looks like 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag.”
“That dog won’t hunt.”
“You are getting to big for your britches son!” - Dad to smartass son…
“Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a romm full of rockers.”
“As easy as pulling a greasy string out of a cats ass.” no idea on where this came from other than my Papaw
“Well bless their heart!” - What mom and mammaw said when they didn’t have anything nice to say about someone.
“That boy could tear up concrete.” [/quote]

What part of the south HS, cause I grew up hearing all those same sayings.
[/quote]
If I doubt something he just stated my Dad likes to say:
“Son, if I tell you a gnat can pull a plow…you hook him up!”

Had a boss once who always said, “That boy’s got more ideas than Carter’s got liver pills!”

Cattywampuss. I can never take anyone serious when they say that word.

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]Hip Scar wrote:
This is really going to show my southern roots…

“You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.”
“What’s time to a hog?” - My mom referring ot my granfather who would drive to Georgia just to get peaches.
“They could eat corn on the cob through a chain link fence” - refering to someone with jacked up teeth
“She looks like 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag.”
“That dog won’t hunt.”
“You are getting to big for your britches son!” - Dad to smartass son…
“Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a romm full of rockers.”
“As easy as pulling a greasy string out of a cats ass.” no idea on where this came from other than my Papaw
“Well bless their heart!” - What mom and mammaw said when they didn’t have anything nice to say about someone.
“That boy could tear up concrete.” [/quote]

What part of the south HS, cause I grew up hearing all those same sayings.
[/quote]

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.

[quote]kross001 wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]Hip Scar wrote:
This is really going to show my southern roots…

“You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.”
“What’s time to a hog?” - My mom referring ot my granfather who would drive to Georgia just to get peaches.
“They could eat corn on the cob through a chain link fence” - refering to someone with jacked up teeth
“She looks like 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag.”
“That dog won’t hunt.”
“You are getting to big for your britches son!” - Dad to smartass son…
“Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a romm full of rockers.”
“As easy as pulling a greasy string out of a cats ass.” no idea on where this came from other than my Papaw
“Well bless their heart!” - What mom and mammaw said when they didn’t have anything nice to say about someone.
“That boy could tear up concrete.” [/quote]

What part of the south HS, cause I grew up hearing all those same sayings.
[/quote]
If I doubt something he just stated my Dad likes to say:
“Son, if I tell you a gnat can pull a plow…you hook him up!”[/quote]

“You never know how hard a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.” heard that a thousand times.

[quote]Hip Scar wrote:

[quote]DJHT wrote:

[quote]Hip Scar wrote:
This is really going to show my southern roots…

“You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit.”
“What’s time to a hog?” - My mom referring ot my granfather who would drive to Georgia just to get peaches.
“They could eat corn on the cob through a chain link fence” - refering to someone with jacked up teeth
“She looks like 10lbs of shit in a 5lb bag.”
“That dog won’t hunt.”
“You are getting to big for your britches son!” - Dad to smartass son…
“Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a romm full of rockers.”
“As easy as pulling a greasy string out of a cats ass.” no idea on where this came from other than my Papaw
“Well bless their heart!” - What mom and mammaw said when they didn’t have anything nice to say about someone.
“That boy could tear up concrete.” [/quote]

What part of the south HS, cause I grew up hearing all those same sayings.
[/quote]

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.[/quote]

Damn we have the same Daddy? Dad worked the oil field so I think I lived in 9 states before 4th grade.

Depending on how old you want to be…

I kid you not.
Believe you me.
For what it’s worth…
Far be it from me …
C’est la vie!

I wouldn’t screw her with Your dick. (point at somebody) or I wouldn’t screw her with (insert name here)’
s dick.

She could suck start a harley. (She’s a whore)
Ugly as a hat full of assholes.
Ugly as ten dicks.
Dead as dick’s hatband.
Dead as a doornail.
Face for radio.
She’s gotta face built for a hackamore.
Watertight as a frog’s ass.
If she has as many sticking out of her as she has had stuck in her, she would look like a porqupine.

Does a bear shit in the woods?
Is the Pope catholic?

If? You can “if” all day. If a frog had wings he wouldn’t bump his ass hoppin’.
Fuck her teeth loose. (personal fave of mine)
Fuck her flat-footed (Or can be use like has already been stated mosquitos so big could fuck a dog flat-footed)

Go pound sand up your ass. (Nice way of saying “Fuck off”)

Shitting through a screen door/ I could shit through a screen door. (Diahreah)

Knockin’ the bottom out of that boat. (Someone is already fucking her.)
Used in conversation- A kid I went to school with is already knocking the bottom outta that boat.

He’s as worthless as tits on a boar-hog.

He’s a limp dick/lame duck.

(Feeling sick)- I feel like I’ve been shot at and missed, and shit at and hit. Feel like I’ve been ate by a wolf and shit off a cliff.

Stove up- (Your body is sore, typically knees, back, hips, big joings, shoulders) I’m feelin a little stove-up today.

Wind is blowing like a two-headed queer.(Windy outside)

You can’t get blood out of a turnip. (Stating the obvious)

Run like a fucked/raped ape. (Truck runs really fast)

Run’s fast enough to cut a hole in the wind./ She’ll cut a hole in the wind. (Fast truck)

I wouldn’t give him the sweat off my balls if he was dying in the desert. (Hate somebody.)

Asshole deep to a tall commanche. (Used to describe an abundance of something.) (The trees down there are asshole deep to a tall commanche.)

Shittin’ in tall cotton. (Your better off than you were previously.) (He got himself a new truck, by god he’s shittin’ in tall cotton now, boys.)

Hotter than a two-dicked billy-goat. (It’s hot outside)

Hotter than a freshed fucked fox. Or hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire. (Too long for me to like, but my boss uses it occasionally.)

Got it made in the shade. (Same as Shitting in tall cotton.)

Tomcatting (Out chasing girls, trying to get laid)

Runs like a scalded dog. (Fast car.)

I don’t got no more hounds in the races. (I don’t care.)

He’s got a horse/hound in the race. (He cares what happens next.)

She’s so fat you’d have to roll her in flour and look for the wet spot.

Harder/Hotter than nine kinds of hell. (When something is particularly difficult. Or it’s hot outside.)

Swinging dick/Stag. (A male)

Stagging. (Going alone, w/o a date, going to social events alone.) I’m staggin’ it tonight.

Strike out. (To start out on a trip, usually traveling far away.) I’ll be strikin’ out tomorrow.

Cold as a welldiggers ass.

Cold as a wedge. (Used to describe cold food.)

Like hearding cats. (Something is particularly difficult) *Cowboys drive cows, can you imagine driving cats? Lol very difficult with them running everywhere, climbing trees LOL just the though makes me laugh.)

These are just the ones that come to mind, I’ll hear some other good ones tomorrow I can add, I’m sure.

Like a bug in a skillet (Bad situation to be in)

Hardtwisted or Hardnosed- Used to refer to old people, who are seemingly always in a shitty mood. (hardnosed old bastard)

He will eat your ass. (He’s crazy, will cause you great bodily harm) Also, *He was about to eat Jame’s ass.)

He will gather your ass. (Same as above)

Clean your clock/plow. (Used as a warning before I got my ass busted with a belt as a kid.)

Shit in your shirt pocket/ Big enough to shit in your shirt pocket. (Tall, usually used to refer to
big/oversized animals or livestock.

Mad as a hatter. He was as mad as a hatter

Hot/ I will be hot/ He got pretty hot/ Hot under the collar/ he got pretty hot over it. (Madder than nessessary, or just plain mad)

Mad as a hornet

Dumb as a sack of hammers/nails.

On you like ugly on an ape, Like flies on shit- (Threat, used to tell someone your about to kick their ass)

He couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the heel. Or sometimes abbreviated to: 'He couldnt pour piss out of a boot. (If someone tells you this, you are the dumbest mofo to walk the earth)

Couldn’t scatter shit- (used to describe something that is slow) 'Horse is so slow he couldn’t scatter shit.

So slow he couldn’t get out of his own way.

Bachin’ -Live alone, bachelor life. (You bachin’ out on that old Johnson place?)

Put together- That kid is aweful put together (Musclular, strong as an ox)

Leg up- Get in shape.

Roadwork -What you do to leg up, Time for me to start doing more roadwork (Run down the road and get in shape)